My grandmother was 1957 Mayak disaster liquidator (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster). She said

My grandmother was 1957 Mayak disaster liquidator (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster). She said that some people in Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute ate and ever brought home for their families fruits cultivated on contaminated soil just because they were in deficit.